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Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference to Showcase a Renewable Energy Commercialization Platform from Capital Nature Experimentum

Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference to Showcase a Renewable Energy Commercialization Platform from Capital Nature Experimentum Business leaders to discuss business models for bridging the gap from innovation to implementation for new renewable energy projects Eilat, Israel (February 21, 2011) – The organizers of the 4th International Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference & Exhibition today announced that […]

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Peres, high-tech leaders to launch Israeli Arab jobs project

As reported by IVC: The project will include a website where Israeli Arab students can send their CVs to high-tech companies. President Shimon Peres and 20 high-tech CEOs will hold a press conference at the Dan Tel Aviv Hotel on Wednesday, February 9, where they will announce the first project of its kind in Israel […]

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TOUR DE DEAD SEA

-PEDAL POWER TO VOTE FOR THE DEAD SEA AS ONE OF THE NEW7WONDERS OF NATURE! The annual Tour de Dead Sea, a cycle race along the contours of the Dead Sea, will take place for the fifth time this year on 5 March 2011 with over one thousand cyclists from Israel and overseas cycling in […]

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Ceragon buys Norway’s Nera Networks

As reported in Globes.co.il: Nera’s operations in Latin America and Africa complement Ceragon’s position in Europe, Asia and North America. Wireless backhaul equipment and network developer Ceragon Networks Ltd. is buying Norwegian company Nera Networks for about $48.5 million.Nera is a manufacturer of microwave radio systems. The company is one of three business units of Eltek […]

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GE CHOOSES ISRAEL’S KINROT VENTURES TO JOINTLY DEVELOP NEW WATER TECHNOLOGIES

“Connecting to Israel is part of our way to be on top of technological creativity and innovation, and only in doing so will we be able to progress” – Heiner Markhoff, president & chief executive, GE Water & Process Technologies. Kinrot Ventures, the world’s first fully-dedicated water technology incubator, and General Electric (GE) recently signed […]

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Israel and Australia – bi-lateral investments on the move

As recently seen in the Invest in Australia Annual Magazine: Israel is a small country renowned for its entrepreneurial sprit, enabling it to quickly transform start-up companies into profitable and competitive companies. This is evident by the fact that apart from Silicon Valley, the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world is found in Israel. […]

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TWO ISRAELI COMPANIES WIN GE CLEANTECH CHALLENGE

Two Israeli start-ups, WinFlex, a wind-energy company, and GridON, which outfits electric grids, were among the five winners of the GE Ecomagination Challenge.   Selected out of more than 4,000 entries from around the globe, each winner received $100,000 to further develop their ideas, which had to fall into three broad categories: Renewables, Grid and […]

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Israel Conquers Space

Look up at the night sky. Amidst the stars is a small satellite you cannot see, circling the earth every ninety minutes, peering down through clouds and darkness. It is called Ofek 9 and it is a sophisticated eye-in-the-sky, both built and launched by Israel. It tracks what Israel’s enemies are scheming and it can […]

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Amazon’s Kindle: A Made-in-Israel Story

As reported in Israel 21C: They made Java “cool” again by using it to develop a device for reading the Kindle, and once again a major tech invention emanates from Israel. Windows; ICQ (known today as AOL Chat); anti-virus software; cell phone technology – you name it and Israel has had a hand in the […]

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A Tech Revolution that lets you Choose the Movie’s Plot

As reported in Israel21c: Did you ever desperately want to interfere in the action of a feature film, so things would work out differently? Now’s your chance. “All filmmaking is based on a lie,” says Israeli Professor Nitzan Ben-Shaul. “In the narrative structure of a movie, it appears that there is only one possible ending – […]